LATEST EUROPEAN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 305, 20 June 1879, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN.

[Special to the Mail.]

[Retjter's Telegrams.]

. London, June 17. In'the House of Commons last night * the Secretary ,of State for the Colonies, in reply to a question, said that a , despatch- conveying the views of the British Government on the Victorian constitutional question had been sent to the Marquis of Nbrmanby, and would arrive in Melbourne in a few days. He promised to produce at an early date, all the papers in connection with this subject. ; •■■ ; (FROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES.) .London, June 16. Three per cent Consols, 97|; Five per cent New Zealand loan, ■ A Hanlon, the Canadian, beat Elliott in the sculling match by thirteen lengths. Cairo, June 15. A;financial decree has been issued by the Khedive of* Egypt which, it is believed, will cause to.be immediately cancelled the protest raised by Germany on .. behalf of the Great Powers. An official despatch has been received from Lord Chelmsford which states that the commissariat arrangements hadbeen sufficiently organised to permit an advance being made into Zululand, and ' that it would commence en June 1. [Age Special.] London, June I_.' At the wool sales during the past week, lat« prices have been fully maintained, with hardening tendency. / '. , June 16." • The National Assembly will move its sittings from Versailles to Paris immediately. The Khedive has accepted the proposals of England and France. A violent outbreak of cholera has taken place among the troops stationed at Khyber Pass.